Hi,
I have always seen this song as an anti-war song. The young man is obviously about to leave for war. ('Goin' off to fight').
He might just have received notification from the army that he has been recruited and needs to report at a military facility. ('Then he walked into a house, Where love had been misplaced').
The album 'Summer Side Of Life' has been recorded during December 1970 through April 1971, so I guess the song was written in direct relation to the Vietnam War.
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